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+# Copyright 2013-2021 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class PyPytestDoctestplus(PythonPackage):
+    """Pytest plugin with advanced doctest features."""
+
+    homepage = "https://www.astropy.org/"
+    pypi     = "pytest-doctestplus/pytest-doctestplus-0.8.0.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.9.0', sha256='6fe747418461d7b202824a3486ba8f4fa17a9bd0b1eddc743ba1d6d87f03391a')
+
+    depends_on('python@3.6:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-setuptools@30.3.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-setuptools-scm', type='build')
+    depends_on('py-pytest@4.6:', type=('build', 'run'))